Weekly News Round-Up: Franz Ferdinand, Gomez and more

Missed any of the week’s top news stories? Live4ever has it covered with our Weekly News Round-Up, looking back at ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand have confirmed the details of their new album Always Ascending.

The band’s first LP since the departure of guitarist Nick McCarthy and addition of Dino Bardot and Julian Corrie is being previewed with its title-track.

Django Django will tour the UK and Europe next year after the release of their new album Marble Skies.

Following the LP’s release on January 26th 2018, tour dates begin a month later at Fat Sams in Dundee and press on to Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester, London and Bristol.

The National and The xx are the first headliners confirmed for a new ten-day event at Victoria Park in London next year.

The All Points East festival will take place between May 25th-June 3rd 2018, with The xx first up on Saturday, May 26th and The National booked for June 2nd, supported by The War On Drugs and Future Islands.

Teleman‘s new EP Fünf – their first collection of new material since last year’s Brilliant Sanity album – is set for release on November 17th, and they’ve now unveiled a second track from it.

Five different producers have worked on a track each; for Repeater that individual was Boxed In’s Oliver Bayston.

Royal Blood have returned to their How Did We Get So Dark? album with a video for its title-track.

The promo was directed by The Sacred Egg, and is premiered just after the duo supported Queens Of The Stone Age in New York last week.

Gomez‘s gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London next May has become the final night of a full UK and Ireland tour for the band.

The group are re-emerging in 2018 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their Mercury Prize winning debut album Bring It On, and announced the London show earlier this month. Now added to that are gigs in Nottingham, Dublin, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol.

Tickets for the two-stage event due to be headlined by Liam Gallagher at Finsbury Park next year disappeared within minutes of going on sale last week.

More acts are on the way for June 29th 2018, but with Gallagher the only confirmed name so far, it’s another sign of the resurgence which the former Oasis frontman has been enjoying this year since going solo.

The Cribs will start the new year with a UK tour opening at the Cambridge Junction on January 10th 2018.

The dates follow what has become a traditional festive run of shows for The Cribs, which this time are due to take in three nights apiece at Glasgow King Tuts, the Manchester Gorilla and London ULU, and a full five-gig residency at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds in December.

Morrissey will tour his new album Low In High-School through the UK and Ireland early next year.

Dates start in Aberdeen on February 16th 2018, and move into March at the Brighton Centre. Two gigs in London, at the Royal Albert Hall and Alexandra Palace, bring the curtain down.

Noel Gallagher is streaming Fort Knox online as the second teaser of his new record Who Built The Moon?.

The largely instrumental, pulsing album opener succeeds lead single Holy Mountain in previewing Gallagher’s third High Flying Birds LP ahead of its release on November 24th. “It was the last track finished on the last day in the studio,” Noel explains.